The document discusses several conditions that medical marijuana has been shown to help treat, including severe chronic pain, muscle spasms, multiple sclerosis, severe nausea, cancer, and glaucoma. For each condition, conventional pharmaceutical treatments can be addictive and have unpleasant side effects, while studies have shown medical marijuana reduces symptoms without the negative effects. It helps relieve pain, muscle spasms, tremors, improves eyesight and appetite, and reduces nausea from chemotherapy.

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2. Severe Chronic Pain
Severe chronic pain is often the result of other conditions or treatments of conditions, such as
chemotherapy treatment for cancer, and can be both debilitating and exhausting and many times can
lead to chronic depression. While pharmaceutical drugs are available to combat pain and depression,
they can be highly addictive and can often cause side effects that are just as unpleasant. The use of
medical marijuana in Colorado patients suffering from severe chronic pain has shown in multiple
studies to lift moods of depression and reduce or even sometimes completely alleviate pain symptoms
without drugs.

3. Muscle Spasms
Colorado medical marijuana patients have discovered many of the drug’s benefits in relation to
treatment for muscle spasms. Muscle spasms can occur as the result of injury or illness, such as
epilepsy, stroke, MS, cerebral palsy, or other conditions. Pharmaceutical drug treatment for muscle
spasms is often laced with side effects and can become highly addictive. The use of medical marijuana
to treat muscle spasms has been shown to relax the nervous system and provide a calming effect to the
body while also reducing pain. Marijuana is an effective, natural alternative to pharmaceutical drugs
and provides both immediate and long lasting results.

4. Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, is a disease that attacks the central nervous system, causing severe pain,
tremors, and loss of many functions. MS attacks nearly 350,000 people in the U.S. alone, and for
patients suffering from MS in Colorado, marijuana can provide a great deal of symptom relief. While
medical marijuana cannot relieve symptoms completely, it can be highly effective in improving
eyesight, appetite, speech and balance. Medical marijuana also helps reduce chronic pain, tremors and
muscle spasms, calming the nervous system and offering some patients the ability to walk unassisted by
walkers or wheelchairs.

5. Severe Nausea
Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, is a disease that attacks the central nervous system, causing severe pain,
tremors, and loss of many functions. MS attacks nearly 350,000 people in the U.S. alone, and for
patients suffering from MS in Colorado, marijuana can provide a great deal of symptom relief. While
medical marijuana cannot relieve symptoms completely, it can be highly effective in improving
eyesight, appetite, speech and balance. Medical marijuana also helps reduce chronic pain, tremors and
muscle spasms, calming the nervous system and offering some patients the ability to walk unassisted by
walkers or wheelchairs.

6. Cancer
One of the most common side effects in cancer patients tends to be nausea as a result of chemotherapy
treatment, and for many patients in Colorado, medical marijuana use is an effective tool in reducing
bouts of severe nausea. For those patients who are unable to keep medication down, the inhalation of
the cannabinoid drug reverses the nausea effects caused by chemotherapy treatment, as well as easing
anxiety and pain related to treatment. Medical marijuana has also been found to stimulate appetite,
which is effective for cancer patients who, due to nausea, have been unable to eat and are experiencing
treatment-related weight loss.

7. Glaucoma
Glaucoma is a condition that is caused by increased eye pressure, resulting in damage to the optic
nerve and can cause eventual blindness. For glaucoma patients in Colorado, marijuana use may be an
effective alternative to surgery. Medical marijuana use reduces pressure immediately in the eyes and
the effects can last up to four or five hours. While medical marijuana will have varying degrees of
effect in patients with glaucoma, adding marijuana to a treatment regimen may allow patients a
secondary source of relief and perhaps eliminate the need for surgery.

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